Posted by clair on November 27th, 2007 in , travel 'n transportation
If you’re new here, you may want to subscribe to my RSS feed for our latest posts of weekend ideas and more.This is such a coincidence. I’ve been going to Hotel Reservations more than a few times yesterday and today to find a flight to Tokyo. Hubz is going there on business and the kids [...]
Posted by clair on November 27th, 2007 in food 'n drink
Fancy a mango shrimp roll for starters? This unlikely combination of fruit and crustacean rolled into one is seriously mouth-watering and it’s what gets us drooling when we go to Vietnam Kitchen.
The softness of the mango and the hard-boiled shrimp serves up two completely different textures.
I’m getting hungry just looking at this picture. I think [...]
Posted by clair on November 25th, 2007 in , shopping
We stopped by our favorite electronics store and the guys seemed be stuck on watching the spanking new model of pioneer HDTV. Needless to say, they were raving about it afterwards.
We can never be sure if that store has the best deals. The best way to find out is to go online to Krillion where [...]
Posted by clair on November 25th, 2007 in tips & ideas
Thanks to the 40-something books that I bought last weekend, the girls are happily bookworming. I haven’t heard a beep from them all week, well, almost.
Between reading and playing some computer games, they’ve just discovered something else to do. They’ve dug out their good old Lego sets and are playing with them.
We’ve got umpteen sets, [...]
Posted by clair on November 24th, 2007 in , money, travel 'n transportation
Well, I’m done paying my car insurance and home insurance for this year. At least that’s out of the way because although it’s great that insurance companies now issue reminders as part of their service, I somehow feel like I’m being nagged.
Just for my car insurance alone, I’ve received no less than three reminders from [...]
Posted by clair on November 21st, 2007 in outdoors
And where, pray tell, do the birds go to cool off on a hot, sunny day? Their own private pool, of course. No bikinis required, just come as you are.
I hear flamingo parties are hot, plenty to eat and drink and lots of leggy chicks there too ! Yep, they sure have legs that [...]
Posted by clair on November 21st, 2007 in , travel 'n transportation
Everyone I know is probably on their flights to Perth or Hong Kong or goodness knows where by now. Flights are so affordable these days you’d be crazy not to go somewhere, anywhere.
Dialaflight.com is the comprehensive site where you can make all your travel arrangements easily, from flight bookings to hotels to travel ideas.
Even if [...]
Posted by clair on November 21st, 2007 in outdoors
If you haven’t been to the Bird Park in a long while, maybe it’s time to revisit. I was pleasantly surprised at what I saw there since the last time I was there years and years ago.
What a wonderful way to start our day out when this guy strutted out to meet us! Yeah, he’s [...]
Posted by clair on November 21st, 2007 in , travel 'n transportation
The holiday season is officially here and the travel bug is in the air. Anyone and everyone would have tickets in their hands by now.
No? No problem, you can still grab cheap tickets from the Holiday Hypermarket, one of the largest European travel agencies. They still have tons of bargain holiday packages, cheap flights and [...]
Posted by clair on November 21st, 2007 in tips & ideas
So what have you got planned for your kids to do this school holidays? They’ll be home and if they’re not old enough to get into computer games yet, then you’ll have to figure out something to keep them occupied and to keep yourself sane .
I know there are plenty of school holiday camps [...]